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• Govt. backs down on Barima memorial plan

  …now seeks bids to salvage sunken vessel (Kaieteur News) – Mounting pressure from stakeholders across Guyana have forced the government to take steps towards salvaging the 87-year-old MV Barima that capsized and sank off the country’s coast on July 18. The tragic incident has so far resulted in the loss of 73 lives, with at least […]

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• ‘Billions flow overseas while Guyana gets nothing’ – Glenn Lall says in fresh broadside against gold deals

  (Kaieteur News) – Businessman Glenn Lall has launched another scathing attack on the management of Guyana’s natural resources, arguing that foreign companies have earned billions of US dollars from the country’s oil and gold assets while Guyana has received “absolutely nothing” from the lucrative corporate transactions. In his latest social media commentary, Lall questioned whether Guyanese […]

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• “Bones, not concrete’: Families of Barima victims demand their dead

  By Khadidja Ba (Kaieteur News) – How do you say goodbye to a shadow? How do you tuck a child into a grave that lies 40 feet beneath dark, muddy ocean water, or fold the clothes of a father whose body remains trapped inside a submerged steel hull? Across Guyana, in quiet wooden homes, tear-stained meeting […]

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